Word: pacts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Meanwhile press officers of His Majesty's Government told correspondents that Britain last week certainly had no intention of joining the anti-Communist pact of Germany and Japan, under Article II of which non-Communist States are invited to join. This much relieved Socialist Premier Leon Blum of France. It was understood that the position of both London and Paris was substantially covered by French Foreign Minister Yvon Delbos when he announced last week: "The accord of Germany and Japan is inspired by a crusading spirit which France, like England and all countries desirous of peace, refuses to accept...
...Japanese Foreign Office just a few days before Soviet Foreign Commissar Maxim Maximovich Litvinoff was to have signed a Russo-Japanese fishing treaty highly favorable to Japan (TIME, Nov. 30). Of course Comrade Litvinoff refused to sign this treaty when he heard about the anti-Communist pact, and last week members of the Japanese Privy Council, too angry to be discreet, blabbed that the Japanese Foreign Minister had himself unwittingly blabbed the secret in a conversation with the Soviet Ambassador to Japan, Comrade Konstantin Yurenev who of course flashed it to Litvinoff. The cost of this blunder to the Japanese...
...world the news that the Battle of Waterloo was won by George Arliss and a flock of pigeons. In this picture, the same Wahoo, Neb. authority on the Napoleonic Wars reveals the inside story of Trafalgar. England's victory in this case, it appears, sprang from a childish pact between Admiral Horatio Nelson and Jonathan Blake, the moving spirit of Lloyd's, London's famed insurance company...
...young Nelson (Douglas Scott) swear to take any dare proposed by the other. When they overhear a captain plotting to scuttle his ship after removing its cargo of gold, they agree to run away from home together to carry the news to Lloyd's. Nelson breaks the pact to go to sea as a midshipman on his uncle's man-o'-war. Blake goes alone to London, where a chimney sweep (D'Arcy Corrigan) directs him to Lloyd's coffee house. The news he brings gets him the friendship of Insurance Broker John Julius Angerstein...
...have heard 1) that Emperor Hirohito had before him for signature a German-Japanese form of declaration approved Nov. 13 by a committee of the Japanese Privy Council and Nov. 16 by the full Council; 2) that this declaration will constitute "not a military alliance but a defensive pact of a novel kind;" and 3) that it is not directed against the Soviet Union but against the Comintern at Moscow, which heads the international federation of Communist Parties devoted to fomenting the World Revolution of the World Proletariat...